Best Reason to Delay Social Security To Age 70

When is a good time to start your Social Security?

David McKnight reveals why smart retirement planning means waiting until age 70 for reasons that have nothing to do with a bigger check… and everything to do with the years in between being your best window for Roth conversions.

In this episode, David McKnight addresses one of the most common questions he gets from people approaching retirement: "When should I start taking Social Security?"

David believes that there's a compelling reason for having 70 as your default Social Security claiming age – and that isn't so that you get a bigger Social Security check…

One of the key reasons to wait until 70 is something that rarely comes up in the traditional Social Security discussion: it has to do with taxes.

David stresses that the years between retirement and age 70 can be some of the most valuable years of your entire financial life.

Why? Because they may represent your best opportunity to execute Roth conversions.

David touches upon the so-called Retirement Income Valley and the benefits it brings about.

With a wrong approach, you may lock yourself into a permanently smaller Social Security check, and may have caused much of that check to become taxable because you simultaneously do Roth conversions.

David suggests a different approach: retiring, delaying Social Security, and spending the next several years aggressively repositioning your tax-deductible dollars to tax-free.

Once all that heavy lifting is done, you can then turn on Social Security.

By following that strategy you accomplish two things: you lock in a substantially larger Social Security benefit and potentially reduce the other income that could cause that larger benefit to become taxable.